Improvement in hoes



M. COOKERLY.

Improvement in Hoes.

No. 132,444. Patented Oct. 22,1872.

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MICHAEL OOOKERLY, OF BAXTER SPRDTGS, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,444, dated October 22, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL OooKERLY, of Baxter Springs, in the State of Kansas, have invented a certain Improvement in Hoes, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in the peculiar shape of the hoe-blade and the manner of its attachment to the handle.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hoe, and Fig. 2 is a plan view on the top of the blade.

The shape of the blade is rhomboidal, as shown particularly in Fig. 2 at a, and is attached to the handle, as shown in Fig. 1, in a manner so the blade a will be about horizontal while in operation. 7

The hoe or bladec is of the shape described because it will work easier and be less liable to clog with roots, &c., on the cutting-edges, which extend all round the blade, as shown in Fig. 2 at i. It is not intended particularly to dig or chop the earth as with an ordinary hoe,

Claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The said hoe, as described, as a new article of manufacture.

MICHAEL GOOKERLY. Witnesses:

W. ORUM, D. B. DYER. 

